Stitching [Paperback]

We will fix it.
We will mend it...



In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness.

Stitching opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2002 and transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, on 12 September 2002. Explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy ... Neilson's writing has a terrible beauty Sunday Times

Startlingly rich and challenging, Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust Time Out
Shattering, shocking...a serious, persuasive account of the blind alleys love can lead us down Daily Telegraph

A characteristically brave and brutal offering Independent

A deeply mesmerising, if shocking, experience as a couple smashes through taboo after taboo in a harrowing sexual tug of war Evening Standard